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It works, for a little while anyway. America is fighting rising sea levels with sand because we don't really have a better plan.On both coasts, the United States' answer to coastal erosion is more beach sand. In just California: Newport Beach wants 200,000 cubic yards from the Santa Ana River. - Read the rest The post Fighting Mother Nature, America has spent $15.7 billion putting sand back on beaches appeared first on Boing Boing.

Auralnaut's reimagined Star Wars series is both more fun than plain ol' Star Wars and makes a lot more sense. Obi-Wan "Larry" Kenobi takes the fan-favorite character and turns him up about 300 notches.The tension between Anakin and Obi-Wan is far more believable in Auralnauts work. - Read the rest The post Auralnauts' "Star Wars: Larry" abridged version now available on the YouTubes appeared first on Boing Boing.

Boing Boing reader David Sipos emailed us with a fun story:

I wrote a few years ago about the mysterious and legendary 200 (!) unused songs that Stevie Wonder recorded for his 1976 masterpiece album Songs in the Key of Life. The musicians and engineers who worked on the double (plus) album have expressed amazement at the quality of the many, many songs that were fully formed and recorded but discarded. - Read the rest The post Stevie Wonder finally releases four unheard songs from Songs in the Key of Life appeared first on Boing Boing.

TL;DR: ChatPlayground AI puts 20+ AI models, including ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and DeepSeek, in one workspace where you can compare responses side by side. The Unlimited Plan is now $54.97 (reg. $619, previously $79) through October 4 at 11:59 p.m. PT. - Read the rest The post Stop juggling AI tabs: Put 20+ models in one place for $55 appeared first on Boing Boing.

The AP reports that U.S. president Donald Trump asked China's president if he wanted to buy US arms on Sunday, describing a deal that would "upend generations of U.S. policy toward China"-as if Trump blurting it out it meant anything.

I remember waiting hours^1 for an AmigaBASIC mandlebrot set to render on my Commodore A500 in 1992 or so, its 7Mhz CPU tackling 64,000 pixels one by one until the amazing results were complete. Now I can stare at wastingmytime's fractals zooming and morphing at 60 frames per second. - Read the rest The post Full-screen animated Mandelbrot fractals on the web appeared first on Boing Boing.

When Concord Public Library in New Hampshire announced a yearlong amnesty on overdue fines, hoping to get some of its many purloined publications back, it didn't expect to see a 1894 issue of Century Illustrated. Local man John Hanson walked in with it, reports NPR's Sophia Palaza-Carre, and the given excuse that he did not himself withdraw the item was impossible to refute, him having not been born for another half a century. - Read the rest The post No fine for copy of Century Illustrated returned 132 years late to library appeared first on Boing Boing.

A truck-mounted crane tipped over onto a house in Fort Lauderdale on Thursday morning, and then a second crane brought in to lift the first one toppled while trying to right it. It too fell onto the house, reported Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue spokesman Frank Guzman. - Read the rest The post Crane falls over while trying to right fallen crane appeared first on Boing Boing.

More than a dozen English words long-used in Bermuda and the Caribbean found their way into the Oxford English Dictionary in 2016, joining last year's set in the definitive record of the English language.Bimpert, from Bermuda, refers to a stupid or foolish person, as found in the traditional phrase "A bimpert is justah wuffless bye" (just a worthless boy) and Hornerman, attested in Trinidad since 1975 and referring to an unfaithful man, got top billing in coverage. - Read the rest The post 12 words from Caribbean and Bermuda enter the Oxford English Dictionary appeared first on Boing Boing.

You've surely seen interactive maps showing the effects of the sea level rising, but Sliding Shores makes a game of it: you get a beautifully-rendered globe and a slider to raise or lower the oceans. There's a load of presets, from "oceans drained" to "drown Everest," a feat not even Waterworld managed. - Read the rest The post Drain the oceans and flood the land with this sea level simulator appeared first on Boing Boing.

Microsoft and chip company Qualcomm launched the "Copilot+" PC branding in 2024 for so-called "AI" PCs. They even had a "Copilot" button that you could press to bring up the "AI". Though it at least indicated decent hardware, it was a hamfisted grasp at a vague buzzword and the "AI" features were badly implemented. - Read the rest The post MIcrosoft ditches "Copilot+" branding for "AI PCs" appeared first on Boing Boing.

TL;DR: Get this Microsoft Windows 11 Pro lifetime license for a one-time deal of $9.97 (reg. $199)-no subscription, no renewal. Available now, through October 4.Upgrading software can feel like a drag. But when the price is right, even the most boring digital admin can feel like a win. - Read the rest The post Access the Pro features that Windows 11 Home leaves out for just $10 appeared first on Boing Boing.

Matthew Ammel, the former bodyguard and former boyfriend of former Arizona U.S. Senator Kyrsten Sinema, was arrested after allegedly breaking into her home while she was out of town and causing $200k worth of damage. Ammel, police say, demanded that Sinema post a video to social media and threatened to throw one of her paintings into her swimming pool every ten minutes until she complied. - Read the rest The post Kyrsten Sinema's former bodyguard and lover arrested after throwing 22 paintings in her swimming pool appeared first on Boing Boing.

Reelizer is a collection of movie poster art curated by Roger Erik Tinch. First published in 2011, it blew up after being linked to by Daring Fireball, slowly faded over the years, went on hiatus, and is now back thanks to new content management software. - Read the rest The post Reelizer: curated gallery of movie posters and inspired artwork appeared first on Boing Boing.

TL;DR: Use Apple Find My to keep track of your wallet, bags, and work badges with this Gen 2 Lite KeySmart SmartCard 4-pack while it's 31% off.Apple Find My is useful for tracking your iPhone, AirPods, and other Apple devices-but why stop there? - Read the rest The post Use Apple Find My to track more than just your devices with this $50 tracking card 4-pack appeared first on Boing Boing.

TL;DR: Handle work and fit in some play on this Lenovo 300e Chromebook, on sale now for just $79.99 (MSRP $284.99).If you're looking for a laptop that can get your daily tasks done, you probably don't need to spend thousands of dollars. - Read the rest The post This $80 Lenovo Chromebook doubles as a touchscreen tablet appeared first on Boing Boing.

Cartoonist Matt Bors has teamed with artist Tristan Wright to create a new comic book version of the early 90s TV kids' cartoon series "The Toxic Crusaders." While the cartoon series was edgy for a children's TV show, this new comic book version is for adults and is more explicitly political, with its gross-out humor serving critiques of capitalism, environmental malfeasance, and crimes against humanity. - Read the rest The post Matt Bors and Tristan Wright reboot The Toxic Crusaders as an adult comic appeared first on Boing Boing.

DLSS 5 is Nvidia's AI-powered tech for dynamically repainting video game scenes in real-time, with more realistic lighting, textures and geometry. Controversial enough on recent games, where it succeeds on a technical level, the real fun is to be had applying it to old ones. - Read the rest The post Behold the horrors of DLSS 5, NVidia's real-time AI graphics improver appeared first on Boing Boing.

Academy Award-winning documentarian Alex Gibney directed Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room and Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief. His latest, Musk, profiles the wealthiest man in the world. But you won't be seeing paid ads for it on YouTube, Facebook or TikTok, as all of them are refusing to run the trailer as an advertisement. - Read the rest The post Top platforms refuse paid ads for Alex Gibney's "Musk" documentary appeared first on Boing Boing.

TL;DR: The ChatGPT & Automation E-Degree includes 12 beginner-friendly courses and over 25 hours of training on ChatGPT, AI tools, automation, data visualization, and more for $19.99 (reg. $790).ChatGPT is easy enough to open and start typing into. Figuring out how to make AI useful for work is the part that takes a little more effort. - Read the rest The post This $20 course bundle teaches you what to actually do with ChatGPT appeared first on Boing Boing.

Barstardica is an online type "foundry" that generates fonts mashed-up from classic typefaces. The resulting abominations are perfect for hostage letters, zany comedy and upsetting graphic designers. Preset features include scale, offset and skew, and you can set specific glyphs not to be swapped. - Read the rest The post Bastardica is a "foundry for bastard web fonts" appeared first on Boing Boing.

This photo of a Borzoi lying in a patch of green grass is visually stunning, yet silly because of the angle. The angelic pup looks more like a rug than a canine spread out in the grass. His fur doesn't help him look like a dog because it's so flat and long. - Read the rest The post This Borzoi napping in the grass looks like a rug appeared first on Boing Boing.

Watch a playful capybara twirl a stick around his mouth like he's performing a trick at a talent show. He seems very dedicated to the art of stick twirling. His serious expression says it all.Another capybara hanging out nearby simply chews on a stick to pass the time. - Read the rest The post Watch a serious capybara twirl a stick in his mouth appeared first on Boing Boing.

These stunning nature videos show small colorful wonders that aren't visible to the naked eye. The videos in these slides were all submitted to the Nikon Small World in Motion competition. From tiny sea creatures to fungus to single-cell organisms swimming around, each video shows the magic that lies just beneath the surface of our everyday life. - Read the rest The post Nikon's microscope videos turn sea slugs and starfish larvae into living art appeared first on Boing Boing.

After 30 years, Pokemon remains among the most desirable collectible franchises in fandom and auctions regularly prove the cards' growing value. But one scalper went too far in his efforts to acquire the latest Squirter or PewPew or whatever, attaching a GPS tranceiver on a delivery driver's vehicle and using it to track her movements. - Read the rest The post Pokemon card collector used GPS device to track delivery woman appeared first on Boing Boing.

TL;DR: Microsoft Office 2024 Professional Plus includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneNote, and Access for one Windows PC, with a lifetime license now $49.97 (reg. $249.99).Your streaming services, cloud storage, and probably half the apps on your phone already want a monthly payment. - Read the rest The post Microsoft Office 2024 drops to $50 for the September Flash Sale appeared first on Boing Boing.

A daycare in Fort Worth, Texas, is being sued after a substitute teacher allegedly encouraged 4-year-olds to fight one another, and herself injured one of them. Surveillance video from the Arka Montessori Academy shows the incident clearly, and KDFW News reports that the state "confirmed the child suffered physical injuries and emotional distress" and cited the daycare 16 times since it opened in 2024. - Read the rest The post Daycare sued over "Child Fight Club" appeared first on Boing Boing.

Researchers are sending an underground robot into a hill whose vaguely boat-like shape has long excited Biblical literalists in search of Noah's Ark. The Noah's Ark Scans expedition hopes to find evidence of The Flood at the Durupinar formation near Mount Ararat in Turkiye. - Read the rest The post Underground robot probing hill thought by some to be Noah's Ark appeared first on Boing Boing.

The government of the Netherlands plans to replace Microsoft's Windows and other software with a custom Linux-based operating system and IT suite named DAWO (Digitaal Autonome Werkomgeving Overheid).

TL;DR: Internxt's 10TB lifetime plan gives new users encrypted cloud storage across unlimited devices for $269.97 (MSRP $2,900) through Sept. 29.Some people delete files. Other people look at a photo from 2014, think, "I may need this someday," and immediately close the storage-management screen. - Read the rest The post Pay once, store a ridiculous amount while Internxt's 10TB plan is just $269.97 appeared first on Boing Boing.

Elizabeth Holmes, the Theranos founder and convicted felon, will move to a halfway house next year. ABC News was first to report her forthcoming transfer from federal prison, where she was imprisoned after being sentenced to 10 years and 3 months on wire fraud charges. - Read the rest The post Elizabeth Holmes headed to halfway house next year appeared first on Boing Boing.

In the early days of computer game development, Star Trek was a popular topic for young programmers with access to mainframes. Players could hunt Klingon ships across the galaxy's numbered sectors while conserving their dilithium crystals and photon torpedoes. The programs were copied, edited and expanded by those who played them-or just made over from scratch. - Read the rest The post A chronology of early Star Trek computer games appeared first on Boing Boing.

TL;DR: AskAnyModel puts 50+ AI models in one browser-based platform and lets you compare up to six responses at once, with lifetime access to the Pro Plan now $39.99 (reg. $499).Why ask one robot when you can convene a panel of six? - Read the rest The post Make up to six AI models answer the same prompt for $39.99 appeared first on Boing Boing.

Roland's GO:KEYS is an all-in-one portable keyboard with speakers and plenty of presets: great for beginners and musicians on the run. The GO:KEYS 3 Minion, a new co-branded model, is aimed at youngsters. But I think we can all take enormous pleasure in the built-in Minion voice instrumentation, which includes singing, choruses and various examples of laughter and gibberish. - Read the rest The post Roland's Minions keyboard sounds just like them appeared first on Boing Boing.

U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly has granted a temporary restraining order reinstating Politico, MS NOW, and CNN to the White House press pool. He doesn't think DOJ has much chance of pulling this off.Reporters immediately reported for work, only to find they weren't allowed to enter the White House for several hours as their "hard cards" were turned back on. - Read the rest The post Federal judge tells Trump to turn the press passes back on appeared first on Boing Boing.

Ranting about "transgenderism" in Congress, U.S. Senator Thomas "Tommy" Tuberville (R-Alabama) briefly diverted his attention to a different group: furries. "Many" airline pilots, flight attendants, and air traffic controllers, he said, are part of the furry community. If the thought represents a masterclass in the unprovable and unfalsifiable, it's one that's clearly been on his mind; Tuberville did not identify a source for his claim. - Read the rest The post Senator Tommy Tuberville: pilots, flight attendants and air traffic controllers are furries appeared first on Boing Boing.

It is unclear whether her plea to pardon broker and President of the United States Donald Trump helped speed this along, but Elizabeth Holmes is getting out of prison quite a bit early.Just four years into an eleven-year term, Elizabeth Holmes will head to a transitional facility intended to help rehabilitated criminals find work, manage their finances, and re-enter society as a productive cog in our machine. - Read the rest The post Elizabeth Holmes is headed to a halfway house for people who need help finding jobs and housing appeared first on Boing Boing.

If you like Tove Janssen's Moomin, with its nearly perfect charm-disquiet ratio, you'll surely love the above "Diving with Shells" mug with Moomintroll enjoying a dip. The 46,023 sale price, though, set a record at Muumimukit rahaksi, a website specializing in Moomin rarities. - Read the rest The post Rare Moomin mug sells for 46k appeared first on Boing Boing.

This week on the popular theme park podcast Disney Dish with Len Testa and Jim Hill, Disney historian Jim Hill tells the story of The Walt Disney Transportation Company and its one achievement: installing a PeopleMover in what was then called The Houston Intercontinental Airport (now The George Bush Intercontinental Airport). - Read the rest The post Disney built a subway inside Houston's airport appeared first on Boing Boing.

If you have ever eaten French fries in the vicinity of seagulls, you have experienced kleptoparasitism, even if you don't know the word. Seagulls snatch fries from humans. Bald eagles harass ospreys into dropping fish. Pea crabs live inside mollusks like clams and oysters and steal their food. - Read the rest The post A dolphin in Australia steals food from fish in the grossest way appeared first on Boing Boing.

TL;DR: This $32.97 (reg. $418.99) bundle gives one PC perpetual licenses for Windows 11 Pro and Microsoft Office Professional 2021, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneNote, Access, and Publisher.A Windows PC isn't much use without an operating system, and for plenty of people, it isn't quite ready for work until Word and Excel show up, either. - Read the rest The post Set up one PC with Windows 11 Pro and Microsoft Office for $32.97 appeared first on Boing Boing.

TL;DR: DVDneXtCOPY DVD Ripper converts your discs, including copy-protected ones, into MP4, MKV, AVI, and MOV files that play on the devices you actually use. Get it for $29.99 (reg. $59.99).Discs don't age well. The player in the living room is probably the last one in the house, and the shelf of movies sitting next to it plays on nothing else you own. - Read the rest The post Your DVD shelf is collecting dust: Digitize it for $29.99 appeared first on Boing Boing.

Actor and director Richard Harrison, famed for low-budget but eminently memorable military epics, spaghetti westerns and martial arts flicks, is dead at 90. His friend Joan Borsten announced his death on social media and eulogized "an A-life in B-movies"

Turns out Walter Masterson's question to voters at Trump's mid-term Republican convention was so difficult it was unfair: Who are you voting for?Perhaps they are ashamed. Maybe they really do not know. Certainly, MAGA does not care who it votes for or what their values are, so long as they are "Republican." - Read the rest The post At Trump's midterm "Trumpapalooza," "any Republican" will do appeared first on Boing Boing.

The Lotus is a card-shuffling robot. It bridges the gap between super-cheap card shufflers that don't really work and casino-grade ones that cost thousands of dollars. This one is under $100, and it looks great.From the company's Our Story page: "At the bottom, you have $20 plastic shufflers that jam, break, and sound terrible. - Read the rest The post The Lotus card shuffler fills the gap between $20 junk and $5,000 casino machines appeared first on Boing Boing.

TL;DR: A one-time $54.97 payment gets you Microsoft Project Professional 2024 for Windows, the scheduling and resource-planning tool that normally lists at $1,129.99.Project auto-populates start and end dates from task dependencies, so moving one milestone reshuffles everything downstream without you rebuilding the timeline by hand. - Read the rest The post Save on this resource: Microsoft Project is available for $55 appeared first on Boing Boing.

Former President Barack Obama made the remarks Monday at Salem State University, after Trump barred CNN, MS NOW, and Politico from White House grounds because of coverage he described as "fake news."Speaking with historian Doris Kearns Goodwin at Massachusetts' Salem State University, Obama called freedom from government retaliation against critical journalism a "foundational" issue. - Read the rest The post Obama on Trump's press ban: "You can't do that and say that you are still living in a democracy" appeared first on Boing Boing.

I've been advised that if I don't want Apple "Intelligence" on, I should stay on OS 26 and decline the chance to install nearly 30GB of stuff I don't want.Remember when Apple put U2 on your iPod and wouldn't let you delete it? - Read the rest The post Apple's macOS 27 installs a lot of AI bloatware appeared first on Boing Boing.

California certainly has adult sea turtles, but we've never seen them lay eggs this far north before.NOAA studies green turtles in Southern California. Over the last 20 years, roughly 60 have been spotted in San Diego Bay. Turtles also appear around Seal Beach and the San Gabriel River. - Read the rest The post Sea turtles are nesting on the U.S. West Coast for the first time on record appeared first on Boing Boing.